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The Art of Intentional Living

Chic Dogs & Magnolia Dreams
The Art of Intentional Living
  • Your Brain on Beauty: What Monet Taught Me About Art and the Mind

    Your Brain on Beauty: What Monet Taught Me About Art and the Mind

    April 28, 2025March 30, 2026 Books, Quiet Notes

    Stepping Inside a Painting Last month, I stepped into a painting and I don’t mean that metaphorically. I found myself standing in a softly lit space in Antwerp, where Claude Monet’s brushstrokes bloomed across the walls, floor, and ceiling. Water lilies rippled around my feet. Flowers shimmered and…

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  • The Quiet Rebellion of Reading: Choosing Depth Over Distraction

    The Quiet Rebellion of Reading: Choosing Depth Over Distraction

    April 21, 2025May 26, 2025 Books, Quiet Notes

    There’s something quietly radical about curling up with a book in a world that urges you to scroll. Even more so when you choose a physical book, your eyes will thank you for the relief. We often don’t realize just how surrounded we are by screens until we…

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  • 10 Inspiring Lessons I Learned From Ina Garten’s Memoir

    10 Inspiring Lessons I Learned From Ina Garten’s Memoir

    January 12, 2025March 30, 2026 Books, Home & Garden
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    Be Ready When the Luck Happens I’ve read some pretty amazing books in 2024 but the one that stood out the most, and the one I was most eager to start reading, was Ina Garten’s memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens. The title is absolutely delicious if…

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Emma's Saturday Routine for a healthy mind and bod Emma's Saturday Routine for a healthy mind and body. 

Also, her strut makes me chuckle each time.🤭🐼❤️

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You know what my favorite thing about this image i You know what my favorite thing about this image is?! 

It's knowing how her life started and how unlikely it seemed that she would end up on a big soft couch of her own. 

How a fortunate chain of events brought her here, to this house... where dogs are the main characters. 

Where dogs aren't only loved but revered.

She was born surrounded by careless humans, to then be found by humans who cared enough to find her, and her siblings a loving home.

There is a lot of cruelty in this world, nearly all of it inflicted by humans. But there's a lot of goodness too. The helpers, the ones who care, the ones who are brave enough to not look away. The ones who feel a deeply rooted urge to restore, beautify and heal the world around them. 

Humans who often feel defeated by the darkness but refuse to come out of the light.

That's what this image reminded me of. 

Thank you to the helpers, the brave ones, that brought this lucky charm of a dog to our lives. 🩷🦊

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So much beauty in a simple life well lived. I hope So much beauty in a simple life well lived.
I hope you are paying attention to yours.🌸🐕🥧

#simplelife
Gilmore Girls Season is officially in full swing! Gilmore Girls Season is officially in full swing!

Bring on the cozy oversized sweaters, apple pie on repeat, crispy mornings with cinnamon coffee, a garden full of dahlias, crunchy-leaf dog walks in the countryside and warming stews made with seasonal vegetables.

Hope you slow down enough to revel in all the deliciousness that this season has to offer.

Sending you cozy autumn filled vibes, wherever you may be.❤️🍂🥧

#gilmoregirls #autumn #cozy
September so far. 🍎Adjusting to a new school year September so far.

🍎Adjusting to a new school year.
🍎Farmer's markets on weekends.
🍎A nasty viral infection.
🍎The shifting of the light and energy levels.
🍎Apple and cinnamon on repeat.
🍎Weekend trips with the husband.
🍎Nature and countryside villages.
🍎Puppy walks with the Chic Dogs.
🍎Gardening for mental clarity.
🍎Naps.
🍎Pumpkins to welcome Autumn.
🍎Doubting everything.
🍎Cotton candy sunrises.
🍎The company of animals.
🍎The harvest full moon.
🍎Might be feeling an even bigger urge to move to the forest.

Hope you are well, wherever you may be.🥧🍂🌻

#September #autumn #simplelife
May every senior dog have their very own Secret Ga May every senior dog have their very own Secret Garden.🐕💛

#seniordogs #adoptdontshop #dogsandgardens
The Chronicles of Chic Dogs! 12 and a half year o The Chronicles of Chic Dogs!

12 and a half year old Marlow and 3 year old Stella "fighting" over a croissant.

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Dahlia season in full swing.🌸 #dahlias #gardening Dahlia season in full swing.🌸

#dahlias #gardening
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